1 9 7 2 (UK) 11 x 50 minute episodes This dramatic series was based on the suicide-saving work of The Samaritans crisis hotline and…
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1 9 8 9 (UK) 4 x 60 minute episodes Bridget (Dame Judi Dench) is a mousey, middle-aged middle-class woman who finds herself discarded by her…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 8 2 (UK) 13 x 35 minute episodes Premiering on 9 October 1981, this short-lived late-night serial told the…
1 9 8 5 (UK) 6 x 55 minute episodes Alan Pinter’s delightfully idiosyncratic mini-series The Beiderbecke Affair – set in Leeds in 1985 – introduced two schoolteachers…
1 9 8 7 (UK) 4 x 55 minute episodes This four-part series followed on from The Beiderbecke Affair (1985) and was followed in turn…
2 0 0 8 – 2 0 1 3 (UK) 37 x 60 minute episodes A werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost share a house in…
1 9 7 1 (UK) 5 x 45 minute episodes Set in Paris in the 1890s, this five-part dramatisation of Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant…
1 9 8 1 (Australia) 26 x 60 minute episodes A hard-hitting Australian police action series from the Grundy Organisation, starring John Stanton in the…
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 7 7 (Australia) 1508 x 15 minute episodes 53 x 60 minute episodes 134 x 30 minute episodes Bellbird followed…
1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 6 (USA) 153 x 60 minute episodes “Man . . . woman . . . birth . .…
1 9 7 5 – 1 9 7 6 (Australia/UK/USA) 13 x 60 minute episodes The storyline of this Australian series began with the bushranger, Frank…
1 9 6 3 (USA) 72 x 30 minute episodes Ben Jerrod premiered on NBC on 1 April 1963 alongside General Hospital. But while the tales of…
1 9 5 3 – 1 9 5 4 (USA) 132 x 15 minute episodes Attorney Wayne Bennett (Don Gibson) and his wife Nancy (Paula Houston…
1 9 8 1 – 1 9 9 1 (UK) 87 x 50 minute episodes Considering the island of Jersey is only four miles across there…
1 9 8 5 (USA) 12 x 60 minute episodes This short-lived night-time drama series from NBC was set in a fancy New York department store…
1 9 7 6 (USA) 13 x 60 minute episodes This Quinn Martin crime drama series was a spin-off from The Streets of San Francisco in which bolshy…
1 9 7 3 – 1 9 7 7 (UK) 26 x 60 minute episodes 26 x 30 minute episodes Beryl Humphries (Carmel McSharry) was the…
1 9 5 4 – 1 9 5 5 (USA) 9 x 60 minute episodes This once-a-month CBS colour series debuted on 15 September 1954 with…
1 9 7 0 (USA) 114 x 30 minute episodes April Morrison (originally played by Julie Mannix and then by Susan Sullivan), a dewy-eyed innocent from…
1 9 6 0 (USA) 26 x 30 minute episodes Debuting in October 1960, this dramatic anthology series, hosted by John Conte, featured adaptations of…